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Real real life is also becoming more popular as a subject. CBS's documentary series 48 Hours provides behind-the-scenes glimpses of everything from airport congestion to Hollywood dealmaking. Among the new shows coming next fall are Group One Medical, in which real patients and doctors will discuss medical...
Doctors have long suspected that the heart could heal itself even when damaged by a heart attack or during surgery -- if only there were a way to let it rest. For more than 20 years, researchers have been trying to develop implantable pumps that temporarily take over part of the...
Within days, the patient's condition improved, and his transplanted heart began to beat strongly on its own. The dramatic case marked the debut of the Hemopump, an experimental device just 1/4 in. wide and 1/2 in. long, manufactured by Nimbus Medical Inc., of Rancho Cordova, Calif. Although a second...
If the device works in future tests, Wampler and Frazier estimate, it might eventually be used in as many as 150,000 people a year. With a $3,000 price tag, the whirring little pump may be the ultimate rarity in medical technology: a bargain.
Despite the trouble spots in the U.S. industry, airline maintenance has become a sophisticated science when practiced at its best on today's increasingly complicated aircraft. The Boeing 747, biggest of them all, contains 4.5 million removable parts and 135 miles of electrical wiring. Mechanics have branched into specialties, complete...